2 Gigs

[Boss RuBiX]

Im planning on upgrading to 2 gigs up and down, Im not sure the Netduma R2 can do that.If not could/would someone refer me to a router thats just as amazing and if possible better than the Netduma R2... All help and replies are gratefully appreciated. 

[Netduma Fraser]

Wow very lucky! The R2 won't be able to support that as the ports are limited to 1Gbps as most routers are. You may need to look around to find a router capable of this as not many home connections have those kinds of speeds.

[Newfie]

There are few home based routers that can handle that like the top tier Asus and Netgear routers, of course you can connect the R2 to them but it would still be restricted to a gig but you can use the geofilter still and at 2Gb QoS is not needed. Your gaming device would need to be wired to the R2 and you can disable the R2 WiFi and use the other routers WiFi. However you can’t control the full network through the R2 this way but you still have the geofilter.
The grey area is how the lan ports share the 2Gb connection which would need research. 

 

 

[Bert]

You would need a router with 2.5G WAN and 2.5G LAN minimum.

 

That means you have 2.5G going in and 2.5G going to a switch, or have 2.5G LAN ports and go straight to your devices. They will need to support 2.5Gbit as well.

 

It really depends on what you want to do. Ie do you need full 2G connectivity to specific devices, like to a PC. Or is 1Gbit per device enough and the devices are sharing the 2G link. Most new PC's now come with 2,5Gbit connections, at least the high end mainboards and some even with 10Gbit connections.

 

Only XR700 is sort of able to do this, in theory you can run SFP+ as WAN and use 2G link aggeration to a switch. But often link aggregation does not give you full bandwidth but balances the clients, I have not looked into this too much. It's normally more used to connect a NAS at 2G serving 1Gbit clients. You would also need a switch that supports this.

 

It also depends on how the 2G connection is served. Ie do you get a ONT with 2,5Gbit RJ45, or a SFP+ connector etc.

 

For speeds above 1G I would actually be inclined to build a x86-64 box with a dual NIC and run it into a multi gigabit switch. That's some expensive equipment though. Netgear TXUP with 4x 1G and 4x 2,5G + 2x SFP+ still does something like 300 euro and the more highend versions with 10Gbit connections are 500-600 euro's. On top of that you would need a separate wifi AP. This would need to be a Wifi 6E model with 2,5Gbit port as well.